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Move over Kepler-452b, there's a new exoplanet on the block. Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet outside of our solar system using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA announced Thursday.
The exoplanet named HD 219134b is about 1.6 times the...

COCOA BEACH — As the Delta IV rocket rose in a blast of blinding light, a crowd of locals and tourists from across the U.S., Canada and Europe stood on a beach 15 miles away to witness the liftoff in awe.
"We are absolutely excited," said...

Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice.
The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week released new pictures Friday of the previously unexplored world on the edge of the solar system.
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Three new crew members arrived in Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station Thursday, after an almost six-hour journey from Kazakhstan.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and Expedition 44 Commander...

Central Florida gets pounded and promoted in the latest "Sharknado" TV movie from Syfy.
The film phenomenon bites our region in a big way at 9 p.m. Wednesday in "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" In this sequel, sharknados — shark-infested...

This was an awesome week for science. Scratch that, it was out of this world.
First, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic Pluto flyby on July 14. A day later we saw some of the result of the 9-1/2 year journey to the dwarf planet –amazing...

New Horizons
NASA took a flier on its photo safari to Pluto, betting that a journey of 9 1/2 years and 3 billion miles to get sort of close and not even stop would yield some great pix. It did; in fact, what the New Horizons spacecraft sent back was a...

A new launch pad unveiled at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday will provide more access for smaller companies to break into space exploration.
Class Vehicle Launch Pad 39C is about the tenth of the size of a regular launch pad at Cape Canaveral and...

Three days after the first ever Pluto flyby, NASA continues to amaze with new data captured by the New Horizons. Friday afternoon NASA released several close-up images of Pluto's "heart" now named Tombaugh Regio showing stunning detail of...

It was worth the 9-1/2 year wait to meet you, Pluto.
New Horizons' team released the first two images from the historic Pluto flyby taken with the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) 7,700 miles above Pluto's surface Wednesday.
The first image...

The much anticipated July 14 Pluto flyby is only days away. Where will you be when NASA’s space probe New Horizons flies by the dwarf planet at 31,000 mph next Tuesday? Go for Launch has Earthlings covered with this list of local and national events...

Our historic first encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons space probe continues to keep the scientific community waiting for the first clear images of the elusive frozen body at the edge of our solar system.
A large heart-shaped...

NASA has selected the first four astronauts to train to be launched into space on private rockets, and all four are veterans of space.
U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Behnken of St. Anne, Mo.; U.S. Air Force Col. Eric Boe, a Miami native; retired U.S....

Kjell Lindgren has watched three rockets blow up or spin wildly out of control over the past several months, one spectacular failure after another that demonstrated the perils of space flight.
Now it's his turn to fly to the International Space Station...

The New Horizons team can take a collective deep breath after a brief loss of communication with the spacecraft, for now. The probe is less than ten days from its July 14 Pluto flyby.
Mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...

SpaceX's rocket explosion last week may only briefly slow the company's ambitious launch schedule at Cape Canaveral but it could also give a boost to its competitors, experts say.
On June 28, a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is representing the good ole U.S. of A. on this July 4th and every day, really.
Curiosity took this “selfie” while roving the rocky planet with its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) showing the American flag on one of its arms....

It's pretty easy to get excited for New Horizons' Pluto flyby this month when NASA uploads new images of the dwarf planet every day for Earthlings to ponder. Today NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California released the stunning new color images above...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Sean Brooks wore a "Special NASA Guest" badge pinned to his shirt and a hard hat ... just in case.
He climbed 247 feet on an unfinished mobile launcher that will someday launch rockets into outer space. On the elevator...

"Space is hard."
U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly reminded his many Twitter followers of that historical axiom with a tweet from the International Space Station following Sunday's explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
It would be easy now for...